Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
Collection
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Description
Two-player asymmetric hidden movement game depicting the 1718 Royal Navy manhunt for the pirate Blackbeard in colonial North Carolina
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Blackbeard has to take risks and expose himself to complete piracy, which is a strong positive.
- The hunters have different options and can soup up their ships, adding strategic depth.
- Variety of missions available to pirates through piracy tiles.
- Informants provide interesting options for hunters.
- Good decision-making space for both players.
- Pirates have choices between playing it safe or being more brazen.
- Tight playtime under an hour makes it a great experience.
- Discoverable depth and strategies with more plays.
- Tremendously fun game.
Cons
- The need to close eyes or look away during gameplay was disappointing.
- There was a learning curve with some rules not being clear from the rulebook.
Thematic elements
- Pirates and hunting pirates
Comparison games
- Fury of Dracula
- Sniper Elite
- Letters from Whitechapel
- Scotland Yard
- Coin
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetrical play — The two players take on different roles with unique boards and abilities, making the game highly asymmetrical.
- deduction — The hunter player uses informants and searches to deduce the pirate's location.
- Dice combat — Combat involves rolling dice for ships and upgrades, with different numbers hitting specific targets or resulting in misses.
- Hidden movement — The game uses hidden movement and hidden information for the pirate to thwart their enemies.
- Resource management — Players commit pawns to different actions like fulfilling piracy conditions, preparing defenses, or movement, and also need to manage resources for upgrades and actions.
- set collection — Blackbeard collects cubes on piracy tiles to fulfill victory conditions.
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- I love hidden movement games. If you know the channel, you know I'm a big, big fan of hidden movement games.
- The more you play and the more that the more nuances you find here, uh the more you're going to like it.
- Hunt for Blackbeard is a great game.
- On the Cody scale, I'm going to give Hunt for Blackbeard an eight out of 10, even despite some of my criticisms, which are not insignificant.
- It is a tremendously fun game and uh I recommend it.
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